nimrod

I just re listened to this song and my love for it grows, It really has that otherwordly thing going, Beatles at their best ? = Yes I think so, strange rhythms, sounds, tempo's, lyrics........man they had it all in those days.

I can't really remember if I loved this song from the first time I heard it, but what I do know is that I totally love it now and it's my favorite song from Magical Mystery Tour. I love everything about it. This really should have been the A-side, but at least it's the B-side. My favorite part of the song is near the end during the "baby, you're a rich man" part, and it's when they're singing that, and during the "baby, you're a rich man too" part, John speaks it. Hopefully you know which part I'm talking about!

I've got a special place in my heart for 'Baby You're A Rich Man' because it was the last Beatles song I got to hear.

The June 1983 issue of 'The Beatles Book' (much missed) had a readers poll of favourite songs ('Hey Jude' was number one), right down to the two or three at the bottom that didn't get any votes!I got on vinyl all the entries until I only had one left (at 71 on the list if memory serves) and, unwilling to get the 'MMT' LP as I obviously had all the other songs on it, I waited ages until finally seeing 'All You Need Is Love' in its orange picture sleeve in W.H. Smith in Ilford with, of course, 'BYARM' on the B-side.For the wait alone, it was for years my favourite Beatles song!

Bizarrely, and for no artistic reasons I can think of, it has been succeeded in my affections by 'Ask Me Why'.